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"Since the adoption of China's 'going out' strategy, Chinese enterprises have been strongly encouraged to engage overseas in a range of sectors, including agriculture. This has ...

The profile page informs the state for open data in Lao PDR in 2018. Lao PDR ranks 162 in the Open Data Inventory 2018 with an overall score of 22%. The overall score is a combi...

In recent years there has been considerable controversy in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR or Laos) regarding decisions by the government to issue long-term land co...

In June 2018, the University of Wisconsin Press published a new book about the Nam Theun 2 Hydropower Project in Laos. The books findings relate to issues of environmental susta...

This report addresses the complex issue of shifting cultivation, which was brought up at the 2011 Round Table Implementation Meeting between the Lao government and international...

The Ethnic Group Development Plan (EGDP) provides a strategy and a programmatic approach to enhance the inclusion of different ethnic groups in the Health Services Improvement P...

This paper begins with the global context of the rubber expansion. The paper then summarises what have been seen as the upland problems and some limited success to resolve the u...

This document is the Ethnic Group Engagement Framework (EGEF) for the proposed Lao Agriculture Commercialization Project (ACP) prepared in conjunction with the Lao PDR Ministry ...

The new wave of political reforms have set Myanmar on a road to unprecedented economic expansion, but, without targeted policy efforts and regulation to even the playing field, ...

The proposed Health Sector Governance Program will be implemented nationally with the overarching goal to increase access, quality, and utilization of essential health services,...

This paper examines various aspects of the living standards of Lao PDR‘s ethnic minority groups relative to that of the historically dominant Lao-Tai ethno-linguistic group. Th...

Communally used land and resources comprise a critically important dimension of rural livelihoods in the Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). Communal ...

The Womens Lives Project Documenting the Lives of Rural Women in the Uplands of Laos was designed by the Lao Upland Rural Advisory Services (LURAS) with the aim of learning mo...

Myanmar is at a crossroad. Given high levels of landlessness and land inequality and low productivity of most small and medium-scale farmers (SMFs), the country is searching for...

This news article gives information on the conflict situation between Lao government and Hmong individuals in late 2018.

A brief summary of the situations and problems facing ethnic groups in the Lao PDR.

A summary of a World Bank project focused on community-level assistance and empowerment programs.

An analysis of the the variation in access to justice systems and property rights for women from five ethnic groups in Laos.

This page displays the video and information on traditional products from women of ethnic groups in Laos.

This page shows the profile of the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre in Laos, a local social enterprise founded in 2006 to promote the appreciation and transmission of Laos...